Samsung has unleashed some of its 2012 line-up at the South East Asia, Oceania and Taiwan Forum, and the company is obviously keen on some serious integration of its devices, be it mobiles, cameras or TVs. The company's ES8000 Smart LED TV promises much, as it comes with a really sleek design and very thin bezel. This 55-inch TV should deliver crisp 2D/3D images and has Micro Dimming Ultimate tech, which analyzes the picture in fragments and optimizes the LED backlight and video in realtime. This should result in 20 percent increase in brightness, richer colors and higher contrast ratios, as well as eliminate the halo effect and distortion.

ES8000 Smart LED TV comes with Smart Content for sharing content on the cloud, Smart Interaction commands, Smart Evolution future expansion options and much more. Samsung's ES8000 LED TV will hit the market at the end of March 2012 priced at US$5,134.83 (S$6,499). You can learn more about these particular features here.Samsung also showed its Series 9 Notebook, for which it claims is the thinnest and most compact laptop around. It is 14.9mm thin and weighs in at 1.59kg.

Thanks to Samsung's MaxScreen tech, the company could use seriously thin thin bezels and thus strap a 15 inch display onto a 14 inch chassis. It runs on Intel's i7 and Samsung's SSD. The company claims power up time is only 9.8 seconds whereas wake-up time is 1.4. It is expected to hit the market in Q2 2012.

News from the land of THQ confirms what they will be showing that E3 this year. If you are a UFC fan, then you will be happy to know that there is going to be a lot of UFC; and if you were hoping for Darksiders II, you are going to have to wait longer, as it isn’t in the cards this time around.

Besides the news that there will be no Darksiders II this time around, there also is no word about announcement of a Homefront sequel. Sources tell us that sales of Homefront were good enough for the title to get a sequel, but we hear that THQ will not be talking about it this time around, other than perhaps mentioning the DLC content for Homefront that is still apparently on the agenda.